Shakespeare's comedy of The merchant of Venice . ur ed. p. 168). 43. Come view. See Gr. Like. Likely; as very often. 51. Too gross^ etc. Too coarse a material to enclose her shroud. Cere-cloth—cerement i^Ham. i. 4. 48), cloth smeared with melted wax (Lat. cera)or gums, for embalming the dead. Obscure has the accent on the firstsyllable, because followed by an accented syllable. Cf. Rich. II. iii. ; A little, little grave, an obscure grave; Ham. iv. 5. 213: Hismeans of death, his obscure funeral; etc. See also on ii. 9. 61 below. 53. Undervalued^ etc. See on i. I. 165 above. During
Shakespeare's comedy of The merchant of Venice . ur ed. p. 168). 43. Come view. See Gr. Like. Likely; as very often. 51. Too gross^ etc. Too coarse a material to enclose her shroud. Cere-cloth—cerement i^Ham. i. 4. 48), cloth smeared with melted wax (Lat. cera)or gums, for embalming the dead. Obscure has the accent on the firstsyllable, because followed by an accented syllable. Cf. Rich. II. iii. ; A little, little grave, an obscure grave; Ham. iv. 5. 213: Hismeans of death, his obscure funeral; etc. See also on ii. 9. 61 below. 53. Undervalued^ etc. See on i. I. 165 above. During the MiddleAges, and down to the i6th century, the value of silver was J^ and ^5-,and even, as here stated, ^^ that of gold. In the latter part of the 17thcentury it fell to as low as J-g. In the 18th it rose to j^^, and is nowabout ^. 57. Insculp\iupon. Graven on the outside. The angel was worth aboutten shillings. It had on one side a figure of Michael piercing the use of the device is said to have originated in Pope Gregorys pun. GOLDEN ANGEL OF QUEEN ELIZABETH- ACT II. SCENES VIll. AND IX. *45 oi An^lizwdi Angeli. Verstegan, in his Restitution of Decayed Intellii:^eticeysays: The name of Engel is yet at this present in all the Teutonicktongues, to wit, the high and low Dutch, &c., as much to say as Angel,and if a Dutch-man be asked how he would in his language call an Angel-like-man, he would answer, ^^// English-tnait^ E^/gei being in their tonguean Angel, and English, which they wriie Engelsche^ Angel-like. Andsuch reason and consideration may have moved our former kings, upontheir best coin of pure and fine gold, to set the image of an angel. Thefigure shows the angel of Elizabeth. 63. A carrion death. That is, a skull. 65. Glisters. Glisten does not occur in S. nor in Milton. In both wefind glister several times. See W, 7\ iii. 2. 171, Rich. //. iii. 3. 178, ii. 2. 117, etc. ; Lycidas^ 79, Comus^ 219, P. L. iii. 550, iv. 645, 653, etc. 69. Tombs. Joh
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